DCMVOX #023 October 2017

#023 – October 2017

Dorset County Museum Volunteer Newsletter Thursday 5th Lunch Time Concert 1.00 to 2.00pm Bela Hartmann and Vasilis Rakitzis Piano Duet Friday 6th Archaeology Lecture 7.00pm for 7.30pm Shipwrecks of the Bronze Age David Parham Wednesday 11th Geology Lecture 6.30pm for 7.00pm European Jurassic and Cretaceous non-marine molluscs and palaeoenvironments Dr Martin Munt

Welcome to Issue No.23 of DCMVOX… Items for the “My Favourite Object” or any other suggestions, welcome for the next and subsequent issues or DCMVOX. E-mail offerings to Anna on secretary@dorsetcountymuseum.org - thank you!

Bumper Book Sale Friday 17th, Saturday 18th & Monday 20th November—10.00 am to 4.00pm Can you help? We need someone who loves books! Other attributes include:  Time to sort and manage the donations of books. This will become more of a commitment, the closer we get to the Sale  Not mind getting a little dirty and working in St Peter’s Institute

As with any job, more hands make light work—I’m waiting to hear from you! secretary@dorsetcountymuseum.org

Thursday 19th Lunch Time Concert 1.00 to 2.00pm Andrew Hurst and Bernardo Renaissance Lute and Guitar Thursday 26th Hardy Talk 7.00pm for 7.30pm Hardy and Sex Education Dr Karin Koehler

Almost our last call for Dippy Volunteers Would you like to join our little Dippy army? So far, 34 of our current Museum volunteers have signed up, together with 69 new volunteers, but we still need more people to help with Stewarding, Front of House, Tea Room, Education and Guided Tours.

Dippy may not be arriving until February but we need to get all our volunteers, both new and existing, trained in plenty of time. In fact, our last training session will be on 9 December. If you’re interested, please contact:

Main Exhibition:

volunteeringasst@dorsetcountymuseum.org

8th April to 6th January 2018 David West: Under the Surface An exhibition of paintings and carvings

or pick up an application form from the front desk. Please tell your friends about this exciting opportunity but note that, ideally, applications from volunteers new to the Museum should be received by 12 October to allow time for contacting referees and induction, etc. We look forward to hearing from you.

Tea Room 11th September to 6th January 2018 Christine Rogers Art Work

For all the latest updates and news, please visit www.tomorrowsmuseumfordorset.org and sign up to the e-newsletter for the latest developments.

Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA Tel: 01305 262735 - www.dorsetcountymuseum.org

Visitor Quote of the Month: Wonderful exhibition. The best local museum I have had the good fortune to visit.

Dorset County Museum Christmas Card Dorset County Museum; painted by George Wickham This card, available only at Dorset County Museum, will be on sale shortly.

Celebrating our Volunteers —Volunteer Awards 2017 The Museum Tea Room is being re-vamped

We have, once again, nominated our volunteers to the Volunteer Centre in Dorchester under the Volunteer of the Year and Volunteer Team of the Year categories.

Volunteer of the Year—Linda Roberts This has been a year of real achievement for Linda. She makes it a real pleasure to be a member of the Arts team and has combined a sense of natural curiosity in the works in the Do you have any vin- collection, a willingness to get stuck in and get her hands dirty, and a great gift for getting on tage-style crockery with people, to improve both the standards of the Arts team output and the lives of her felwhich you would be low volunteers. Administratively she has been totally committed to taking on the backlog of membership applications while our Membership Secretary is on long term sick leave. She happy to donate?

We are looking for found her way around the various systems and was determined not to let any of it beat her!

tea cups, tea plates and especially tea pots. Items must be in perfect condition but do not have to match.

Volunteer Team of the Year—Education Team During 2016/2017 with few resources and little investment in the schools programme, the Education Volunteers nevertheless brought energy, fun and enthusiasm to the museum on a daily basis during term time!

With the help and support of around 15 team members, the museum has been able to offer exciting, fun and informative school sessions to over 2,500 pupils.

Thanks! Every volunteer has gone above and beyond what has been asked of them, in many Instances staying well after each school has left to clear up, debrief and talk about how we can continuously improve what we do. It is no exaggeration to say the Dorset County Museum would not have a schools programme without the invaluable input, time, support and dedication from this team of volunteers.

Welcome to our new volunteers….

We continue to welcome new applicants at any time, and at the moThis month three volunteers have ment Cathy Breward and I are knee deep in the paperwork for the been accredited to the Museum: Dippy team volunteers. We had a Barry Foot to Maintenance, Anne very successful information evening Evans to Digitisation, and Cathy on 28 September, resulting in nearCarey to Fine Art .Paul Meaden who has been one of our Education ly 20 more applicants, some of volunteers for some years has also whom also wish to remain as regular volunteers with us. been fully accredited. Currently there are several more volunteers working their way through the sys- It is very pleasing to be part of such tem so I an able to say that our Vol- a popular organisation, and we all hope that by the time the next unteering teams are in good shape! SCMVOX is issued we shall know

the outcome of our HLF application. So far, it has been very positive and we remain optimistic.

We value all uuor volunteers very highly, but please see the item above regarding this year’s Volunteer Awards, which gives us the opportunity to give our thanks in a more tangible way.

Jill Minchin Volunteer Co-ordinator and Trustee